Recently a visiting bomber scorched across a northern airstrip on test, just above the treetops, at a speed that made even the oldest inhabitant gasp. It was a Mosquito—one of the amazing aircraft which Australia is now making. When the bomber had landed and taxied to its revetment, the pilot joined a group of Australian and American airmen. During the gossip, one of the Americans ...
Article : 612 wordsHere are two stories from France of the tough and daring men who did much of the work in silencing enemy gun batteries and pillboxes—the British Commandos and American Rangers. Richard McMillan writes: ...
Article : 312 wordsDescribing the strange contrast in the battle, a British United Press correspondent in France says that Bayeux restaurants are ...
Article : 157 words"We have literally for two years been preparing for this great day," said a spokesman of the Ministry for War Transport in reviewing ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Governor, Mr. Casey, former member of the Commonwealth Parliament, left the vice-regal box in the Bengal Legislative Assembly ...
Article : 186 wordsAccording to a British correspondent, Germans took 3,000,000 French girls, most of them young, and handed them over to the ...
Article : 130 wordsTwo "invasion stowaways" have been returned to Britain from the front in Normandy. The first is a 16-year-old Belgian, ...
Article : 127 wordsOld maps by De Quiros, Captain Cook, Torres; Matthew Flinders, and other discoverers have played a prominent part in the air war against Japan in the South Pacific. Allied air crews have used the ...
Article : 168 wordsCareful study of reports from Europe received at Supreme Allied Headquarters reveal the first significant weakness in the Nazi ...
Article : 149 wordsA German submarine invaded North Atlantic fishing areas last week and shelled and machine-gunned the Boston trawler Lark. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe new President of the American Medical Association, Doctor Herman Kretschmer, in a speech at the, annual convention ...
Article : 79 wordsThe B29 Super Fortress, which was used for the bombing of Japan, has four engines of 2,200 h.p. each. Its wing span is 141.2 ft., compared with the 104 ft. of the Flying Fortress. It is an all-metal aircraft with tricycle landing gear and has a ...
Article : 209 wordsAmong the repercussions of the Allied breaching of the Atlantic Wall is according to the Daily Mall's Stockholm correspondent, ...
Article : 160 wordsSINCE THE SECOND FRONT OPENED, Allied planes have been heavily pounding targets in Germany and occupied countries. This picture shows "D" for Donald on its return from a night raid. The big bomber, with its landing lights on and guided by the Flight-Sergeant holding torch in either hand, taxis up the runway. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 53 wordsA 10-acre German minefield in the French invasion area contained at least 12,000 mines and booby traps. ...
Article : 100 wordsA mongrel dog named Bill, belonging to Mrs. Francis Lee, who lives in a town .on the south coast of England. has returned home after being missing ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 20 Jun 1944, Page 3
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